School No. 4/Curry School
Portage Township
Location: District #4 – Section 17, west side of Oakland Drive between Schuring Road and Centre Avenue.
Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm. C. Sauer. Local History Room
Originally built about 1855 as a wooden Greek Revival building. It has apparently been known variously as Curry School and as School #4, although when each was used is not clear. It was consolidated in 1924 and destroyed in a suspicious fire the following year.
Teachers
1921-22 Dale C. Fausey
Compiled by Catherine Larson, Local History Specialist, Kalamazoo Public Library, 1999. Mapped October 2008. Last updated 19 January 2022.
Sources
Books
An oral history of Portage schools : Cleora Skinner to Pete McFarlane
Tom Vance, editor; introduction by Steve Rossio.
Portage, Michigan : Portage District Library, Portage Schools Collection, 2017.
H 370.9774 O633 (circulating copy also available)
Maps and atlases
USGS topographic map for Kalamazoo County, 1922/1950 (Schoolcraft Quadrangle)
- History Room topographic map case, drawer 5B, folder 37.
Files
Teachers’ and School Officers’ Directory, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, 1921-22
- Shelved in a pamphlet box with H 379.774 K149 (History Room Storage)